Checkout · demo background
Production surface — everything below is what the live dashboard would show. This fold is for the presenter.
Talk track.
Speed of checkout is their boss’s stated KPI — get customers in and out
faster; QuikTrip is the competitor he names. Store to store, then district
to district — then it becomes competitive. Their rule of thumb: see a
queue, break the line — the second-checkout trigger automates it. 61%
choose a manned lane over self-checkout; POS never sees that choice.
Waiting is an absence POS cannot record. “Left without reaching the
counter” is a camera-observed journey outcome; it does not claim whether
a purchase occurred.
The checkout queue holds cars on the pumps — the one-system story with
Forecourt.
Claims.
Numbers are illustrative, on Register.md + journey + live-presence
machinery. Serving time per customer is serving seconds ÷ customers
served, presence-measured — POS transaction time starts at ticket-open
and reads smaller. Queue time is measured in the queue zone, outside the
serving/waiting states. Never a bare “served” — the count is
customers served; the time-state is serving.
Second-checkout trigger is queue depth × a closed lane. In-and-out reuses
Walk-in’s dwell for customers who reached a serving state; it does not
verify a purchase. The 14 min wait tile is the CX mix with response as a
sub. The 11 who left before the counter is a funnel step, not a purchase
claim. Staffing mix, response histogram, and queue by daypart stay off
this surface — they live on the PathCI week view
(checkout-week.html).
District rollup is a planned grouping — today the product
compares stores.
Build readiness.
Serving and waiting states are a shipped primitive. Serving time, queue
time, slow checkouts, response time, store comparison, and door-to-served
are derivable. Not built: manned vs self-checkout split, left-before-counter,
second-checkout trigger, district rollup.
2 need attention.
Same 159 walk-ins as Walk-in. 11 joined the queue and left without reaching the counter. No purchase outcome is inferred. Walk-in →